CURRICULUM VITAE Personal data Jerzy Dzik Instytut Paleobiologii PAN Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland born 25 February 1950 in Jedlicze Łódzkie, Poland married, two children Titles and memberships 1998 Corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1993 Professor of paleontology 1986 Doctor habilitatus degree in geology at Warsaw University (evolutionary biogeography of conodonts) 1979 Doctoral degree at Zakład Paleobiologii PAN (phylogeny of nautiloids) 1973 Master of Science in zoology at Warsaw University (fossil millipeds) Scholarships 1995, 1989-90 Tübingen (Alexander von Humboldt scholarship) 1991 Southampton 1987 Halle/Saale, Freiburg, Berlin 1980 Uppsala 1981/82 Columbus, Ohio (postdoctoral fellowship) Research grants and scientific expeditions 2000-2002 leader of research grant from the Polish Commitee of Scientific Research on Ediacaran taphonomy and paleontology, including expedition to Khorbusuonka in northern Yakutia; also trip to the Zimnie Gory locality at the White Sea shore. 1997 leader of a research grant on Ediacarian organisms from northern Russia (a Russian scientist employed) and Namibia (results published in Geology 27, 519-522 and Historical Biology 13, 255-268) 1995 organizer of an expedition to the Middle Cambrian Kaili Locality of soft-bodied organisms, Guizhou, China (results published in Nature 377, 720-722 and Palaeontology 40, 385-396) 1994 member of an expedition to the Karatau Range, Kazakhstan organized by the Instytut Paleobiologii PAN and Geological Institute, Alma-Ata 1987 member of an expedition to the Lena River section of the Early Cambrian, Siberia, organized by the Paleontological Institute, Moscow 1975/76 member of a biological research cruise to Antarctica to study pelagic marine ecosystems Editorial work 1998-present editor of Palaeontologia Polonica (monograph series established 1929). 1991-1996 editor of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (indexed in SCI) Teaching 1998- lecture on evolutionary theory at Warsaw University 1993, 1983 lecture on evolutionary paleontology at Warsaw University 1992-1994 lecture on evolutionary geochronology at the Silesian University in Sosnowiec 1983-1989 lectures of paleobiology at Łódź University Books 1997 Ewolucja życia. Wielka Encyklopedia Geografii Świata, Vol. 8 (In Polish; Evolution of Life, a volume of a large encyclopedia), 360 pp. Kurpisz, Poznań 1992 Dzieje życia na Ziemi. Wprowadzenie do paleobiologii (In Polish; History of Life on the Earth: an Introduction to Paleobiology; textbook of paleobiology) 447 pp. PWN, Warszawa (first edition listed among bestsellers in 1992, second modified edition of 1997, 515 pp, third edition of 2003, 523 pp.) Interests Phylogeny of invertebrates and early chordates based on paleontological evidence, with special value given to the stratigraphic order of appearances. At present the research is based on Precambrian materials from northern Russia, early Cambrian from Kazakhstan and Siberia, and Ordovician from Poland. Methodology of reconstructing evolution from fossils and its paleontological record at the population level. Conodonts from the Devonian of Poland and the Ordovician of Ukraine and Austria have been used in studies of this kind. The conodont materials offer large samples with precise geological time control and a large amount of anatomical information in statistically restored apparatuses. Achievements 2003 discovery of the oldest herbivorous member of the dinosaur lineage; interpretation of the Ediacaran environment as poisonous, inhabited only by chemoautotrophic petalonamean "sea pens", the dipleurozoans being alien to it. 1999 a model of morphogenesis of ancestral skeletal structures in chordates (based on imprints of epithelial cells in conodonts) and evidence that the conodont apparatuses bore keratinous caps homologous to the myxinoid jaws (Evolutionary Biology 31, 105-154) 1999 evidence that the Ediacaran dickinsoniids were complex metazoans forming a monophyletic group Dipleurozoa together with Spriggina and several other Precambrian organisms (Historical Biology 13, 255-268) 1999 taphonomic reinterpretation of Namibian Ernietta showing that its morphology is a result of sedimentary processes, does not represent the actual anatomy, and the body walls were collagenous indicating metazoan affinities of the Ediacaran organisms (Geology 27, 519-522) 1995 identification of the early Cambrian Chengjiang Yunnanozoon as the oldest chordate (Nature 377, 720-722; Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40, 341-360) 1994 evidence that the "early Cambrian explosion" is of taphonomic nature (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 38, 3, 247-313) 1993 evidence that the alleged Cambrian and Precambrian medusoid cnidarians represent other phyla (i.a., the lophophorate class Eldonioidea) and that the anatomy of the oldest cnidarians was much more complex than expected, with cnidocysts missing or unnefficient (Evolutionary Biology 27, 339-386; The Early Evolution of Metazoa..., 47-56) 1991 scenario of the evolution of oral apparatuses of conodonts (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 36, 3, 265-323) and identification of solitary ancestors of the Bryozoa. 1990 evidence that most of Ordovician conodont lineages had their roots in temperate climatic zone (Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 117, 1-28) 1989 evidence that the nemathelminthes, lobopodians, tardigrades and arthropods form a monophyletic group (based on restored anatomy of the earliest onychophoran Xenusion), and an evolutionary scenario for the origin of walking appendages in articulates (Lethaia 22, 169-181) 1981 physiologic explanation of the origin of phragmocone in the earliest cephalopods and interpretation of their jaws as a modified operculum (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 26, 161-191) 1978 evidence that hyoliths had larval development typical of early molluscs (Lethaia 11, 293-299) 1976 reconstruction of three-dimensional organization of the conodont oral apparatus (now generally accepted) based on modelling directions of deformation in fossil material (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 21, 395-455) 1975 evidence presented that polymorphism in the cheilostomatous Bryozoa developed gradually and an attempt of its physiological interpretation as a result of divergent evolution of duplicated gene sets controlling late ontogeny (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 20, 395-423)